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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: YUGOSLAVIA Matches Found: 70 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` AESTHETICS OF DUSK, by ALES DEBELJAK Poem Source First Line: I remember the leaden breath that clouded my world. Though Last Line: Into the rhetoric of repetition, which conceals decaying forms Subject(s): Poetry And Poets; Yugoslavia AND FORGETFUL OF EUROPE, by GEOFFREY GRIGSON Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: Think now about all the things which made up that place Subject(s): Travel; Yugoslavia ANGEL ON THE LAKE SHORE, by ALES DEBELJAK Poem Source First Line: Frightened laughter on the faces of the caryatids. A captain Last Line: Destroying the seed that might shoot up from a common pain Subject(s): Marriage; Social Protest; Yugoslavia APPRENTICE, by GORAN SIMIC Poem Source First Line: I have spent half of my life looking for a vocabulary of beauty Last Line: Supposed to be more beautiful than a rose Subject(s): Apprentices; Balkan Conflicts (yugoslavia); Serbo-bosnian Conflict APPRENTICE, by GORAN SIMIC Poem Source First Line: Half a lifetime I've been looking Last Line: And the lime-flower is more beautiful than the rose Subject(s): Balkan Conflicts (yugoslavia); Sarajevo, Bosnia ARRIVAL OF THE WOLF, by GORAN SIMIC Poem Source First Line: Welcome wolf among our bloodthirsty sheep all smiling Last Line: Which does not resemble those you have passed through Subject(s): Balkan Conflicts (yugoslavia); Serbo-bosnian Conflict ARRIVAL OF THE WOLF, by GORAN SIMIC Poem Source First Line: The sheep are smiling as they welcome the wolf Last Line: Smiling, smiling, smiling as they welcome the wolf Subject(s): Balkan Conflicts (yugoslavia); Sarajevo, Bosnia AT THE BEGINNING, AFTER EVERYTHING, by GORAN SIMIC Poem Source First Line: After I bury my mother and run from the graveyard being shelled Last Line: Why do you write poems which resemble newspaper reports? Subject(s): Balkan Conflicts (yugoslavia) BALKANS OF THE HEART, by EARL COLEMAN Poem Source First Line: The rude graffiti of the black hand Last Line: Conjuring the force I'd need to break us out of there Subject(s): Balkan Conflicts (yugoslavia) BEFORE THE STORM, by ALES DEBELJAK Poem Source First Line: The russian hound behind the door has stopped barking. Ice floes Last Line: Stands before it, weeping. Perhaps her only child is just asleep Subject(s): Death; Social Protest; Yugoslavia BEGINNING AFTER EVERYTHING, by GORAN SIMIC Poem Source First Line: After I buried my mother Last Line: Why do you write poems like newspaper reports?' Subject(s): Balkan Conflicts (yugoslavia); Sarajevo, Bosnia BORDERLANDS, by BARBARA GUEST Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: The return was like a snowbird like the cutoff Subject(s): Yugoslavia BOSNIAN CADENCE, by REEVES M. MARCUS Poem Source First Line: It's a sad little brunette Last Line: A sad little wife Subject(s): Balkan Conflicts (yugoslavia); Bosnia BRIDGE, by GORAN SIMIC Poem Source First Line: One morning, a week or two before Last Line: Before anyone had called 'action' Subject(s): Balkan Conflicts (yugoslavia); Sarajevo, Bosnia CALENDAR, by GORAN SIMIC Poem Source First Line: I heard the fall of a leaf from a calendar Last Line: All I heard was the fall of a leaf from a calendar Subject(s): Balkan Conflicts (yugoslavia); Sarajevo, Bosnia CHRISTMAS, by GORAN SIMIC Poem Source First Line: I'm blind,' I say. I don't speak again Last Line: She could understand the half of what I say Subject(s): Balkan Conflicts (yugoslavia); Sarajevo, Bosnia COMMON STORY, by GORAN SIMIC Poem Source First Line: Sarajevo, january 1993. %my friend put his wife and children on the bus Last Line: By whoever cleans the shit and snow off buses Subject(s): Balkan Conflicts (yugoslavia); Sarajevo, Bosnia CONSEQUENCES, by GORAN SIMIC Poem Source First Line: A fly on the tv screen dots the president's eye Last Line: And a warning of the terrible days ahead Subject(s): Balkan Conflicts (yugoslavia); Sarajevo, Bosnia CREW PRACTICE IN LAKE BLED, IN JUGOSLAVIA, by JAMES SCULLY Poem Source First Line: I'd wave the gnats away and try Last Line: And wish you better that I do Subject(s): Yugoslavia CURTAINS, by GORAN SIMIC Poem Source First Line: I wake you in the middle of the night. I say Last Line: Had kept me from sleeping Subject(s): Balkan Conflicts (yugoslavia); Sarajevo, Bosnia DECORATIONS, by GORAN SIMIC Poem Source First Line: When he came back from the war, my grandfather Last Line: By the beams in the attic Subject(s): Balkan Conflicts (yugoslavia); Sarajevo, Bosnia DOGS AND BONES, by GORAN SIMIC Poem Source First Line: After a few days of war Last Line: Of the can-opener on its chain %around her neck Subject(s): Balkan Conflicts (yugoslavia); Sarajevo, Bosnia DREAM, by GORAN SIMIC Poem Source First Line: Asleep -- dreaming %that you are asleep and dreaming Last Line: On the pillow, sketched in blood Subject(s): Balkan Conflicts (yugoslavia); Sarajevo, Bosnia DUBROVNIK POEM (EMILIO TOLENTINO), by ANTHONY RUDOLF Poem Source First Line: The jew was always treated %well, in this part of the world Last Line: This letter came from moses montefiore with thanks for our congratulations %sent on his hundredth bi Subject(s): Yugoslavia ENDURANCE, by CAROLYN FORCHE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In belgrade, the windows of the tourist Last Line: I am trying to tell you something Alternate Author Name(s): Sidlosky, Carolyn Subject(s): Yugoslavia FACE OF SORROW, by GORAN SIMIC Poem Source First Line: I know how the face of sorrow looks Last Line: To watch my neighbor standing by the window %night after night looking at the dark Subject(s): Balkan Conflicts (yugoslavia) FIELD OF PTUJ, by TOMAZ SALAMUN Poem Source First Line: You were tired at the very beginning Last Line: That's not the way you figured it, mon general Subject(s): Generals; Grandparents; Yugoslavia GIRLS IN YUGOSLAVIA, by MARY KOLADA HARRIS Poem Source First Line: The girls in yugoslavia Last Line: How could I possibly compete? Subject(s): Girls; Women; Yugoslavia HAVING A WORD WITH GOD, by GORAN SIMIC Poem Source First Line: It started out as a quarrel Last Line: The fool on the up and up Subject(s): Balkan Conflicts (yugoslavia); Sarajevo, Bosnia HOMECOMING, by ALES DEBELJAK Poem Source First Line: A crust of thin ice cracks, and signposts change. Summer snow Last Line: As a celtic vase drowns in the murmuring water that might fill the dry well Subject(s): Change; Despair; Nations; Nature; Yugoslavia I KNOW, by TOMAZ SALAMUN Poem Source First Line: Last night, in the water where barnett newman's Last Line: Untouchable and untouched. %terrifying Subject(s): Flowers; Yugoslavia IMAGINATION LOST, by GORAN SIMIC Poem Source First Line: God, %my imagination is wearing out. My fervor is fading and acid Last Line: From a tree you are approaching. My god Subject(s): Balkan Conflicts (yugoslavia) IMAGINATION LOST, by GORAN SIMIC Poem Source First Line: Listen, god, %my imagination is wearing out Last Line: Into the tree, the very %tree you mean to fell Subject(s): Balkan Conflicts (yugoslavia); Sarajevo, Bosnia IN ROUND THE BACK, by GORAN SIMIC Poem Source First Line: I've got one eye on the front door Last Line: Enter someone. %someone should enter Subject(s): Balkan Conflicts (yugoslavia); Sarajevo, Bosnia LAKE ISLE OF BLED, by JAMES RAGAN Poem Source First Line: I still see the stones of bled through the mirror Last Line: She would rather see, and seeing, be the bones of death Subject(s): Death; Yugoslavia LAMENT FOR VIJECNICA, by GORAN SIMIC Poem Source First Line: The national library burned for three days last august and the Last Line: How they'd taken ten tons of clinker from the deepest cellar national library Subject(s): Balkan Conflicts (yugoslavia); Sarajevo, Bosnia LEJLA'S SECRET, by GORAN SIMIC Poem Source First Line: Doctor lejla from the department for corpse identification went mad Last Line: They sleep peacefully. At night, we still hear the sound of lejla's piano Subject(s): Balkan Conflicts (yugoslavia) LEJLA'S SECRET, by GORAN SIMIC Poem Source First Line: Dr. Lejla, of the department for corpse Last Line: To the sound of lejla's piano Subject(s): Balkan Conflicts (yugoslavia); Sarajevo, Bosnia LEPENSKI VIR, by JUDY KLARE Poem Source First Line: Their tents of fur faced west toward the danube; thus Last Line: Knowing what they had always known... Subject(s): Towns; Yugoslavia LOVE STORY, by GORAN SIMIC Poem Source First Line: The story about bosko and amira, who tried to cross the bridge out of Last Line: Stench of their decaying bodies. No newspapers wrote about that Subject(s): Balkan Conflicts (yugoslavia) LOVE STORY, by GORAN SIMIC Poem Source First Line: Last spring, the story of bosko & admira Last Line: Whenever the light spring breeze %blew in his direction Subject(s): Balkan Conflicts (yugoslavia); Sarajevo, Bosnia LUKA FILIPOV (INCIDENT OF MONTENEGRIN WAR OF 1876-78), by ZMAI IOVAN IOVANOVICH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: One more hero to be part Last Line: Luka filipov. Alternate Author Name(s): Brankovichera, Vidosava Subject(s): Balkan Conflicts (yugoslavia) MARKO, by TOMAZ SALAMUN Poem Source First Line: And just as I was Last Line: I've always wanted yugoslavia %to win ed their heads Subject(s): Yugoslavia MICE OF WAR, by GORAN SIMIC Poem Source First Line: By the second summer of the war Last Line: Just scraps, and the wide eyes of the mice Subject(s): Balkan Conflicts (yugoslavia); Sarajevo, Bosnia MORNING AWAKENING, by SANDOR CSOORI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Good morning,--I greet you when you open the door Subject(s): Balkan Conflicts (yugoslavia); Love - Erotic; Morning MOSAIC OF THE NATIVITY: SERBIA, WINTER, 1993, by JANE KENYON Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On the domed ceiling god Last Line: Lodges and begins to grow Subject(s): Balkan Conflicts (yugoslavia); Christmas; Serbia; Nativity, The; Servia MOSAIC OF THE NATIVITY: SERBIA, WINTER, 1993, by JANE KENYON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On the domed ceiling god Last Line: Of christ, cloaked in blood, %lodges and begins to grow Subject(s): Balkan Conflicts (yugoslavia); Christmas; Serbia MULTIPLICITY, by BARBARA GUEST Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: An opposing force nestles closer Subject(s): Balkan Conflicts (yugoslavia) NATIONAL HERO, by GOJKO DJOGO Poem Source First Line: They cut off his left arm Last Line: Children and scapegoats %hang on his stumps Subject(s): Yugoslavia - Communist Regime NEXT STEP, by GORAN SIMIC Poem Source First Line: It took three years of war Last Line: The tree the tree the tree %is the safest place to be Subject(s): Balkan Conflicts (yugoslavia); Sarajevo, Bosnia OLD ONES, by GORAN SIMIC Poem Source First Line: The old ones of sarajevo are disappearing Last Line: In the silent airwaves, the empty %diary, the letters to no Subject(s): Balkan Conflicts (yugoslavia); Sarajevo, Bosnia ON THIS VERY STREET IN BELGRADE, by CHARLES SIMIC Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Your mother carried you Subject(s): Belgrade, Serbia; Balkan Conflicts (yugoslavia) ROMANCE OF PARCELS, by GORAN SIMIC Poem Source First Line: Before long, the city was one vast lock-up Last Line: Why her husband won't clear the blocked-up kitchen sink Subject(s): Balkan Conflicts (yugoslavia); Sarajevo, Bosnia RUZA AND THE TRAMS, by GORAN SIMIC Poem Source First Line: All that ruza left behind was Last Line: Honest to god, I do not know how to think about that %after a year of war Subject(s): Balkan Conflicts (yugoslavia) RUZA AND THE TRAMS, by GORAN SIMIC Poem Source First Line: All that remains of ruza Last Line: Know how to think about that %after a year of war Subject(s): Balkan Conflicts (yugoslavia); Sarajevo, Bosnia SARAJEVO, by CZESLAW MILOSZ Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now that a revolution really is needed, those who once were Last Line: What will strike them ripens in themselves Subject(s): Balkan Conflicts (yugoslavia); Bosnia; Indifference; Sarajevo, Bosnia SARAJEVO, by ART NAHILL Poem Source First Line: Here, daybreak %will be a slow rain Last Line: The city like a plague Subject(s): Balkan Conflicts (yugoslavia); Sarajevo, Bosnia SARAJEVO SPRING, by GORAN SIMIC Poem Source First Line: It is spring again. The spring is coming Last Line: Is coming, hobble- %clop, hobble-clop, hobble-clop Subject(s): Balkan Conflicts (yugoslavia); Sarajevo, Bosnia SECOND BAPTISM, by ALES DEBELJAK Poem Source First Line: The city, shaken to the bone by fear, is silent once again. Mice Last Line: Silently revived. Which counts no years as it ripens unrequited Subject(s): Yugoslavia SEVENTH ECLOGUE, by MIKLOS RADNOTI Poem Source First Line: Look how evening comes and around us the barbed-wire-hemmed, wild Last Line: Since I can face neither death nor a life any longer without you Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Yugoslavia SHORT LECTURE ON LIFE, by GORAN SIMIC Poem Source First Line: He comes in to the room at a run Last Line: Why does he give me such grief Subject(s): Balkan Conflicts (yugoslavia); Sarajevo, Bosnia SLOVENIAN HYMN, by EDVARD KOCBEK Poem Source First Line: Small and meek. I grow into the cosmic order, my brothers speak the same Last Line: We sense you in our blood, we are drunk like young fathers Subject(s): Yugoslavia SORROW OF SARAJEVO, by GORAN SIMIC Poem Source First Line: The sarajevo wind %leafs through newspapers Last Line: Who stands by the window to watch the dark Subject(s): Balkan Conflicts (yugoslavia); Sarajevo, Bosnia SOURCE OF OXYGEN, by ALES DEBELJAK Poem Source First Line: The sweet fragrance of yellow roses on the grave of the poet Last Line: If no one else will, I'll move my lips to keep your path forever open Subject(s): Yugoslavia STORY OF BESO, by GORAN SIMIC Poem Source First Line: After a year in the aussie cane-fields Last Line: Has already lasted a year Subject(s): Balkan Conflicts (yugoslavia); Sarajevo, Bosnia TESTAMENT OF DEFEAT, by ALES DEBELJAK Poem Source First Line: Are we the steam rising from the boiling cauldron or the tradition Last Line: We're as tired as the thick ash snowing through the seasons Subject(s): Defeat; Yugoslavia THE SARAJEVO ZOO, by GLYN MAXWELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Men had used up their hands, men had Subject(s): Balkan Conflicts (yugoslavia); Sarajevo, Bosnia; Zoos; Death - Animals VICTORY, by GORAN SIMIC Poem Source First Line: I was passing through a country Last Line: Yelling, 'victory! Victory! Victory!' Subject(s): Balkan Conflicts (yugoslavia); Sarajevo, Bosnia WHAT'S LEFT?, by GORAN SIMIC Poem Source First Line: What's left of our rebellion Last Line: Putting the sparrows to flight Subject(s): Balkan Conflicts (yugoslavia); Sarajevo, Bosnia WHO'S STANDING, by TOMAZ SALAMUN Poem Source First Line: Are you the stone of a fruit, dear soul? Mandorla, fetus Last Line: Loaded among wooden logs Subject(s): Continents; Death; Love - Loss Of; Travel; Yugoslavia |
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